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Eligible AFA-CWA flight attendants at Northwest Airlines will receive a cash payment and pension contribution worth about $14,500 within the next two to three weeks. The funds will be distributed as the result of the union's sale of a $182 million equity claim against Northwest that was preserved in their recently ratified contract.

About 50 members of CWA Locals 1101 and 1108, Jobs with Justice and the United Electrical Workers rallied outside the annual meeting of DirecTV in New York City to protest the company's refusal to bargain a fair contract with technicians and other workers at the company as well as its latest move to shift workers' jobs in several states to contractors.

More than 200 CWA and IBEW members rallied in Burlington, Vt., on June 2 to tell Vermont's Public Service Board that Verizon's proposed sale of its landlines to FairPoint Communications would leave northern New England stranded with outmoded telecommunications. Verizon has proposed selling its landlines in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont for $2.72 billion.

CWA is forming a support group for members, friends and families affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

CWA will meet with the top leadership of Avaya and the two private equity investment firms that are proposing to purchase the company for $8.2 billion. In discussions with Avaya, the company has indicated that the contract will remain intact, said Ralph Maly, CWA Vice President, Communications and Technologies.